Mesopotamia and Assyria: From the Earliest Ages to the Present Time; with Illustrations of Their Natural History |
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... Christianity or some bar- barous remains of it among them . They admit both baptism and circumcision ; believe in the metempsy- chosis ; never say ' such a one is dead , ' but that he is changed ; never enter a Christian church without ...
... Christianity or some bar- barous remains of it among them . They admit both baptism and circumcision ; believe in the metempsy- chosis ; never say ' such a one is dead , ' but that he is changed ; never enter a Christian church without ...
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... Christian Population— Nestorians , Chaldeans or Syrians - Divisions of Sects - Early Progress of Christianity in the East - Christian Bishops and Sees - The Nestorian Heresy - Condemnation of its Author -Rise of the Jacobite Schism ...
... Christian Population— Nestorians , Chaldeans or Syrians - Divisions of Sects - Early Progress of Christianity in the East - Christian Bishops and Sees - The Nestorian Heresy - Condemnation of its Author -Rise of the Jacobite Schism ...
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... Christian doctrines upon the tenets of the ancient Gnostics and the religion of the Magi . He recognised the two distinct Principles of Good and Evil , whom he represented as always con- tending with each other . The good was the light ...
... Christian doctrines upon the tenets of the ancient Gnostics and the religion of the Magi . He recognised the two distinct Principles of Good and Evil , whom he represented as always con- tending with each other . The good was the light ...
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according Ainsworth ancient appears Arabs Armenia army Assyria Babel Babylon Babylonian Bagdad banks Birs bitumen bricks building built called canal capital Chaldeans chief chiefly Christian common Crassus crossed Ctesias Ctesiphon Cyrus death described Diarbekir district east eastern empire enemy Euphrates feet formed former Greeks ground gypsum height Herodotus Hillah hills horse inhabitants Jezirah Kasr Khabour Khoosroo king Kurdistan Kurds land limestone Mardin marshes Medes mentioned Mesopotamia miles monarch Mosul mounds mountains Mujelibé Nestorian Nimrod Nineveh Ninus Nisibin observed occupied Orfa palace Parthians Pasha passed Persian plain present prince reign remains remarkable Rich Rich's ridges rising river rock Roman ruins Samarra Scripture seen Seleucia sheik Shinar side Sinjar Solymaneah species square stone Strabo stream Surenas Syria Taurus temple of Belus tent thick Tigris tion towers town tract traveller tribe village walls whole Xenophon yards Yezidees